Technology would capture CO2 emissions

PITTSBURGH, June 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. Congress should approve a measure that would fund technologies that could aid to control global climate change, a Nobel Prize-winning professor says.

The technologies can trap and store carbon dioxide emissions deep underground, Ed Rubin, a lead author of the study by the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Carnegie Mellon University, where he on faculty, said in a news release.

The bipartisan legislation introduced June 12 by U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and 14 co-sponsors would create a non-governmental fund to support the demonstration of cutting-edge carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

"Creating this fund would be a critical step in achieving truly 'clean coal' technologies that are urgently needed," said Rubin, alumni professor of environmental engineering and science in the Pittsburgh university's Department of Engineering and Public Policy.